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Nate Diaz Has Some Jiu Jitsu Advice For Conor McGregor

Wow, Nate Diaz also blasts Conor McGregor’s haters and the trolls… For those of you that thought the heated rivalry between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor was still burning, this recent interview might change your mind. We are just 11 days removed from the madness of UFC 196, and the blockbuster pay-per-view card from Las

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Wow, Nate Diaz also blasts Conor McGregor’s haters and the trolls…

For those of you that thought the heated rivalry between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor was still burning, this recent interview might change your mind. We are just 11 days removed from the madness of UFC 196, and the blockbuster pay-per-view card from Las Vegas, Nevada is still making front page news. The UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor faced Nate Diaz in the main event of the evening, and it was more spectacular than any of us could’ve imagined.

To the surprise of many of ‘The Notorious” fan base, the Irish boxer was not able to take Diaz out in the first round as he’d predicted. The chin of the Stockton Jiu Jitsu ace proved steadfast, and by round two it was clear who was going home with the victory. For the first time in McGregor’s UFC career, he was in serious trouble, and Diaz’s combinations began clipping the jaw on a regular basis.

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A thunderous left straight leaves McGregor wobbled, as Diaz starts to sense the finish…

As UFC commentator Mike Goldberg might say, Diaz smelled the opening, and he wasn’t going to let McGregor off the hook. All the trash talk and mentions of ‘snitches in Stockton’ had clearly put wind in the sails of Diaz, and it wasn’t long before his own predictions began to come true. Everyone becomes a wrestler once they get hit, and McGregor did just that, shooting in for an ill fated takedown on the superior grappler. This marked the end of the fight before it had even happened.

The subsequent ground and pound from the mount, attempt to escape by McGregor, and Diaz sinking in the rear naked choke from the back was elementary.

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For once it was Conor McGregor on the receiving end of the taunts inside the octagon, he was a broken man, and Nate Diaz’s corner were letting him know this throughout the final moments of the fight. As the featherweight champion tapped out, it was clear that welterweight was not the place for him, and that Diaz’s Jiu Jitsu was simply superb. We also saw a huge backlash in the form of hateful memes and a strange scrutiny of McGregor for tapping out rather than going to sleep.

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Five Changes Conor McGregor Must Make To Defeat Bigger Opposition

Reigning UFC featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor took on a daunting task when he accepted a bout opposite lightweight kingpin Rafael dos Anjos. The scrap was scheduled for last weekend’s (March 5, 2016) UFC 196, and McGregor was attempting to become the first man in promotional history to hold two titles simultaneously. Ultimately, dos

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Reigning UFC featherweight champion the “Notorious” Conor McGregor took on a daunting task when he accepted a bout opposite lightweight kingpin Rafael dos Anjos.

The scrap was scheduled for last weekend’s (March 5, 2016) UFC 196, and McGregor was attempting to become the first man in promotional history to hold two titles simultaneously.

Ultimately, dos Anjos pulled out of the fight just over a week out with a broken foot.

The “Notorious” one would end up taking on fan favorite Nate Diaz in a welterweight bout, two whole weight classes above his usual home at 145-pounds.

While his willingness to take on anyone at any time was on full display, the move proved to be detrimental to the Irishman, as he suffered a shocking second round submission loss to Diaz.

After the loss, McGregor will likely drop back down to featherweight to defend his title, but that doesn’t mean a future at 155-pounds or even 170-pounds is completely out of the question.

Let’s take a look at five changes McGregor must make in order to defeat bigger foes:

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Jon Anik Keeps His Word, Gets ‘209’ Tattoo

Heading into March 5’s blockbuster UFC 196 from Las Vegas, Nevada, UFC color commentator Jon Anik had said that he would get a ‘209’, the area code of Nate Diaz’s home in Stockton, California, tattoo if Diaz were able to beat featherweight champion Conor McGregor in the main event on just 10 days notice. Anik

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Heading into March 5’s blockbuster UFC 196 from Las Vegas, Nevada, UFC color commentator Jon Anik had said that he would get a ‘209’, the area code of Nate Diaz’s home in Stockton, California, tattoo if Diaz were able to beat featherweight champion Conor McGregor in the main event on just 10 days notice.

Anik was forced to eat his words when Diaz submitted the brash Irishman in the second round of their welterweight bout, throwing the MMA world into an uproar.

After the bout, the Stockton native took a few shots at Anik regarding the situation, but in the end it was all fun and games with Diaz insisting that the commentator didn’t have to get a tattoo.

Anik, however, took matters seriously, and is apparently a man of his word, taking to his official Instagram account earlier this evening to post a picture of his newly minted ‘209’ tattoo:

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I guess it’s safe to say that Anik shouldn’t have betted against Stockton’s finest.

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Video: Conor McGregor Found Love Before UFC 196

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor got involved in another heavy beef before UFC 196, mixing it up with Nate Diaz in a number of crazy interviews and press conferences. The Stockton bad boy was drafted in when the original booking with Rafael dos Anjos fell apart. The UFC lightweight champ suffered a broken foot, so

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UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor got involved in another heavy beef before UFC 196, mixing it up with Nate Diaz in a number of crazy interviews and press conferences. The Stockton bad boy was drafted in when the original booking with Rafael dos Anjos fell apart. The UFC lightweight champ suffered a broken foot, so instead we were treated to a welterweight serving that could not disappoint. In the end, one of the greatest rivalries ever culminated in an action packed two round affair in Sin City.

Nate Diaz got the huge win though, as he sent the champion packing back down to the 145-pound division, once again ready to pick from the line of contenders that wait at featherweight. But what else came out of UFC 196? As is often the case with high level UFC fighters that get turned in to ‘hype trains,’ McGregor’s loss sparked an online backlash much like Ronda Rousey’s KO loss at UFC 193 did.

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Just one example of hundreds of memes that flooded the mixed martial arts forums following Diaz’s victory over McGregor. So what gives? Yes ‘The Notorious’ is about as brash and brazen as they come, but at the end of the bout he was humble and spoke nothing but truth, giving Diaz his credit as the better man. Surely once the hype is stripped away, even the most outspoken characters are hard working and sincere fighters?

Yes, even the most hardened of warriors has feelings and emotions, and McGregor actually channelled the inner Romeo during a classic moment that flew under the radar.

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Quote: GSP Would Never Move Up Like Conor Did

Despite being one of the promotion’s brightest stars over the years, former long-time UFC welterweight champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre has always seemed to have a somewhat rocky relationship with President Dana White and the UFC brass. Obviously nothing like that of the UFC’s relationship with golden boy the “Notorious” Conor McGregor. St-Pierre vacated his title

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Despite being one of the promotion’s brightest stars over the years, former long-time UFC welterweight champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre has always seemed to have a somewhat rocky relationship with President Dana White and the UFC brass.

Obviously nothing like that of the UFC’s relationship with golden boy the “Notorious” Conor McGregor.

St-Pierre vacated his title back in 2013, and McGregor has since assumed the role as the face of the UFC while serving as the reigning featherweight champion.

Despite his title status, the brash Irishman actually tasted defeat for the first time in his UFC career last weekend (March 5, 2016, dropping a submission loss to Nate Diaz in a welterweight scrap, two weight classes higher than McGregor’s usual home at 145-pounds.

Recently talking on the two household names, White praised McGregor for his valiant effort while noting that St-Pierre never had the guts to jump up one weight class let alone two (Via FOX Sports):

“That’s the thing, nobody wants to do it. GSP would never move up to 185 to fight Anderson Silva. He wouldn’t do it. That’s what makes Saturday so fun. You know how many times we wanted to do the GSP-Anderson Silva fight? GSP would not do it. Would not do it. Guys don’t do that stuff. That’s what makes Conor McGregor so unique, so fascinating and so fun. For GSP he was moving up one weight class. Conor McGregor jumped up two weight classes. Conor McGregor is so much fun in the fight business. Guys don’t do that. Guys who are making the money that Conor McGregor makes, has the money in the bank, and all the things that are going on with him, he has a world title, he just decides to jump up two weight classes and fight somebody else.”

Should fighters be talked down upon for not always taking risks, or is McGregor simply a different type of phenomenon?

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UFC Rankings Update: Conor McGregor Drops Five Spots On Pound-For-Pound List

Reigning UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor had a rough night at UFC 196 this past weekend (March 5, 2016), coming up short in his move up to 170-pounds where he met usual lightweight Nate Diaz. After a tremendous amount of trash talk, the “Notorious” one would end up suffering a rear naked choke loss in

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Reigning UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor had a rough night at UFC 196 this past weekend (March 5, 2016), coming up short in his move up to 170-pounds where he met usual lightweight Nate Diaz.

After a tremendous amount of trash talk, the “Notorious” one would end up suffering a rear naked choke loss in the second round to Diaz.

After the defeat, McGregor has dropped five spots in the pound-for-pound rankings, now sitting at No. 8.

Miesha “Cupcake” Tate also upset Holly Holm in the co-main event of the evening, becoming the new women’s bantamweight championship as well as breaking into the pound-for-pound rankings at No. 15.

Check out the fully updated rankings below courtesy of UFC.com:

Pound-For-Pound

  1. Jon Jones
  2. Demetrious Johnson
  3. Luke Rockhold +2
  4. Dominick Cruz
  5. Fabricio Werdum +1
  6. Rafael dos Anjos +1
  7. Robbie Lawler +1
  8. Conor McGregor -5
  9. Daniel Cormier
  10. Jose Aldo
  11. Chris Weidman
  12. Frankie Edgar +2
  13. TJ Dillashaw -1
  14. Joanna Jedrzeczyk +1
  15. Miesha Tate *NR

Flyweight

Champion: Demetrious Johnson

  1. Joseph Benavidez
  2. Henry Cejudo +1
  3. Jon Dodson -1
  4. Jussier Formiga
  5. Ian McCall
  6. Kyoji Horiguchi
  7. John Moraga
  8. Zach Makovsky
  9. Wilson Reis
  10. Dustin Ortiz
  11. Ali Bagautinov
  12. Justin Scoggins
  13. Luis Smolka
  14. Ray Borg
  15. Sergio Pettis

Bantamweight

Champion: Dominick Cruz

  1. TJ Dillashaw
  2. Renan Barao
  3. Urijah Faber
  4. Raphael Assuncao
  5. Aljamain Sterling
  6. Michael McDonald
  7. Thomas Almeida
  8. Bryan Caraway
  9. Takeya Mizugaki
  10. Johnny Eduardo
  11. Jimmie Rivera
  12. John Lineker
  13. Frankie Saenz
  14. Eddie Wineland
  15. Cody Garbrandt

Featherweight

Champion: Conor McGregor

  1. Jose Aldo
  2. Frankie Edgar
  3. Chad Mendes
  4. Max Holloway
  5. Ricardo Lamas
  6. Cub Swanson
  7. Charles Oliveira
  8. Dennis Bermudez
  9. Jeremy Stephens
  10. Hacran Diaz
  11. Darren Elkins
  12. Brian Ortega
  13. Tatsuya Kawajiri
  14. Nik Lentz
  15. Clay Guida

Lightweight

Champion: Rafael dos Anjos

  1. Eddie Alvarez
  2. Khabib Nurmagomedov
  3. Anthony Pettis
  4. Tony Ferguson
  5. Nate Diaz
  6. Michael Johnson
  7. Beneil Dariush
  8. Edson Barboza
  9. Donald Cerrone
  10. Dustin Poirier
  11. Al Iaquinta -1
  12. Bobby Green
  13. Evan Dunham
  14. Michael Chiesa
  15. Rashid Magomedov

Welterweight

Champion: Robbie Lawler

  1. Rory MacDonald
  2. Stephen Thomson
  3. Tyron Woodley
  4. Carlos Condit
  5. Johny Hendricks
  6. Demian Maia
  7. Matt Brown
  8. Dong Hyun Kim
  9. Neil Magny
  10. Tarec Saffiedine
  11. Rick Stroy
  12. Kelvin Gastelum
  13. Hector Lombard
  14. Albert Tumenov +1
  15. Thiago Alves -1

Middleweight

Champion: Luke Rockhold

  1. Chris Weidman
  2. Jacare Souza
  3. Vitor Belfort
  4. Michael Bisping
  5. Lyoto Machida
  6. Anderson Silva
  7. Tim Kennedy
  8. Robert Whittaker
  9. Gegard Mousasi
  10. Uriah Hall
  11. Derek Brunson
  12. Thales Leites
  13. Rafael Natal
  14. Dan Henderson
  15. CB Dolloway

Light Heavyweight

Champion: Daniel Cormier

  1. Jon Jones
  2. Anthony Johnson
  3. Alexander Gustafsson
  4. Glover Teixeira
  5. Ryan Bader
  6. Ovince Saint Preux
  7. Rashad Evans
  8. Mauricio Rua
  9. Jimi Manuwa
  10. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
  11. Patrick Cummins
  12. Corey Anderson
  13. Ilir Latifi *NR
  14. Nikita Krylov +1
  15. Gian Villante -2

Heavyweight

Champion: Fabricio Werdum

  1. Cain Velasquez
  2. Stipe Miocic
  3. Alistair Overeem
  4. Ben Rothwell
  5. Junior Dos Santos
  6. Andrei Arlovski
  7. Travis Browne
  8. Josh Barnett
  9. Mark Hunt
  10. Frank Mir
  11. Roy Nelson
  12. Antonio Silva
  13. Matt Mitirone
  14. Ruslan Magomedov
  15. Alexey Oliynyk -1

Women’s Strawweight

Champion: Joanna Jedrzeczyk

  1. Claudia Gadelha
  2. Carla Esparza
  3. Rose Namajunas
  4. Tecia Torres
  5. Jessica Penne
  6. Valerie Letourneau
  7. Paige VanZant
  8. Michelle Waterson
  9. Maryna Moroz
  10. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
  11. Joanne Calderwood
  12. Randa Markos
  13. Jessica Aguilar
  14. Julianna Lima
  15. Felice Herrig

Women’s Bantamweight

Champion: Miesha Tate

  1. Holly Holm -1
  2. Ronda Rousey -1
  3. Cat Zingano
  4. Amanda Nunes
  5. Julianna Pena
  6. Sara McMann
  7. Jessica Eye
  8. Bethe Correia
  9. Liz Carmouche
  10. Sarah Kaufman +1
  11. Valentina Schevchenko -1
  12. Raquel Pennington
  13. Germaine de Randamie
  14. Lauren Murphy
  15. Marion Reneau

 

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